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SUB-FAMILY THE SECOND. 



VULTURIN^ OR TYPICAL VULTURES 

 OF TEE OLD WORLD. 



Genus NEOPHEON fSavigmj.J 



NEOPHRON PEECNOPTERUS (Linnaeus.) 



EGYPTIAN VULTURE. 



Of all the carrion-oating birds of the old world, there are 

 probably few so widely diffused, and none so useful in removing 

 unclean substances as the Egyptian Yulture. It is found gene- 

 rally throughout the south of Eui'ope, and that portion 

 of the Afi'ican continent which lies to the north and to the 

 east of the desert of Sahara, extending in a south-easterly 

 direction as far as Kordofan and Abyssinia; it also occurs in 

 most parts of Africa lying to the south of the 22nd degree of 

 south latitude, extending as far as the Cape of Good Hope. 

 It is also found in the south-western and southern counties of 

 Asia, extending as far eastward as India and western Thibet, 



